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Welcome to The Hockey Zone's Monthly Trivia Feature! The questions will be updated every second month. Just answer the questions, and I'll e-mail you, telling you how many of the questions you got right. I will post the names and scores of the top ten or so participants each month. You must enter your e-mail address if you would like to know how you did. The winner each month will win a hockey card package of his or her favorite team or player. Just try your best, and have fun!

1.

What is the only city which unsuccessfully bid for an expansion club for the 1967-68 season, and to this day has still never hosted an NHL club?

Portland

Cincinatti

Indianapolis

Baltimore

San Francisco

2.

Which 10-time NHL All-Star was cut from two midget teams when he was 16 because his coaches felt he didn't have the skill to compete at that level?

Chris Chelios

Al MacInnis

Larry Robinson

Steve Yzerman

Scott Stevens

3.

Who submitted a consideration for a new type of hockey stick with a metal handle and replaceable wooden blade at the annual NHL meetings in 1939, nearly 50 years before the modern-era aluminim stick came into use?

Conn Smythe

Lester Patrick

Art Ross

Jack Adams

Tommy Gorman

4.

Who is the only goalie that has stopped two penalty shots in one year in the Stanley Cup Finals?

Billy Smith

Ken Dryden

Reggie Lemelin

Tom Barrasso

Grant Fuhr

5.

This Calder Memorial Trophy-winner holds the NHL records for the fastest goal by a player in his first NHL game (15 seconds) and the fastest three assists (21 seconds). Who is this player?

Gus Bodnar

Camille Henry

Edgar Laprade

Bill Hay

Ralph Backstrom

6.

Which goalie suffered a heart attack during the first period of a game during the 1971-72 season and still managed to lead his team to a 3-1 victory?

Dave Dryden

Jacques Caron

Bruce Gamble

Lyle Carter

Gary Smith

7.

Besides Bobby Hull, who is the only other player to score 50 goals in a season in both the NHL and the WHA?

Anders Hedberg

Blaine Stoughton

Wayne Gretzky

Mike Gartner

Michel Goulet

8.

Which Hall-of-Famer was offered the position of Governor General of Canada in September of 1994, but declined, stating that family matters prevented him from taking the job?

Phil Esposito

Jean Beliveau

Bobby Orr

Guy Lafleur

Marcel Pronovost

9.

Which player was a kindergarten teacher for three years before he went on to become one of the top players in the game today?

Peter Bondra

Keith Tkachuk

John LeClair

Joe Sakic

Teemu Selanne

10.

Who is the youngest player ever to play in the NHL, entering the league when he was just 16 years old?

Harry Lumley

Don Gallinger

Hy Buller

Bep Guidolin

Len Wharton

11.

Who scored the first goal in Nashville Predators' history and will also play for the Atlanta Thrashers in their innagural season?

12.

Who is the NHL forward who did not register a single point in 63 regular season games played in the 1998-99 season?

13.

Who is the only player from Sweden that has scored 50 goals in a season?

14.

What is the name of the arena that the Atlanta Thrashers will call home starting in the 1999-2000 season?

15.

Who passed Grant Fuhr this past season to take over the NHL record for most career points by a goaltender, with 48?

16.

Who is the current Calgary Flames goaltender that scored a goal in the OHL in 1993 and scored another goal in the IHL in 1996?

17.

Who was the first European player to score five goals in an NHL game?

18.

Who is the former coach of the Buffalo Sabres that wore number 99 during his last season as a player in the NHL?

19.

Who is the goaltender that allowed Luc Robitaille's 500th career NHL goal?

20.

Who is the Lady Byng Trophy winner that competed for Canada in the pole vault and placed sixth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?